Story:
New York 1963: The Bronx is rocked by gang warfare. Particularly hard the infighting between the Baldies and the Wanderers, a group of Italian immigrants sons, led by the charismatic Richie. Not only that, the guys have to deal with the everyday problems of growing up and their first experience in matters of love. During a football game, the Wanderers are challenged by the brutal Ducky Boys. A merciless battle for supremacy in the Bronx starts.
Action
The guys at the Wanderers do what all young people seem to be doing in the streets of New York in 1963: spend time with their buddies from the gear, dredging of girls and brawl with other gangs. The Italos have especially problems with Baldy Terror (erland van lidth de jeude) and his gang, the Fordham Baldies, with whom they clashed repeatedly.
For Perry (Tony Ganios) has finally come, thanks to his school friends Richie (Ken Wahl) and Joey (John Frederick) he is picked up by the transition. Seems at the beginning of the film the life of the boys to be a never-ending fun, the characters in the course develop a certain depth, by their weaknesses and fears are displayed. So Joey sees not with his father (Val Avery), an aging muscleman and his mother (Olympia Dukakis). Richie, the alleged leader seems to have a bright future ahead of him, until he learns that his girlfriend (Toni Kalem), the daughter of a Mafia patron of him is pregnant
The problems of the guys culminating in the final climax, a large mass brawl on a football field, which will be for everyone involved a turning point in her life, because that day her innocent youth ends. After the fight, Joey Perry and say goodbye to begin on the coast a new life. What remains Richie, whose future life with his pregnant girlfriend, who will be his wife, seems predetermined and whose youth came to an abrupt end.
An even sadder fate beckons the Baldies who find themselves in a drunken stupor in a ruthless army representative who makes them sign a letter which it recruited for the army.
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